The Guardian even asserts that the documents, not fully published but excerpted, contains NSA “boasts” that the Microsoft acquisition of Skype in 2011 (for $8.5 Billion) allowed them to collect triple the amount of Skype video calls.

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Microsoft (and therefore also Skype), is a company that emphasizes privacy and security, and yet, under the PRISM program and secretive court mandates, it willingly gave the government the keys to their own backdoor leaving your information unprotected.

About primary docs: the "document" for the Microsoft story is an internal, ongoing NSA bulletin over 3 years – we quoted all relevant parts

The documents reveal that your Skype calls to your mother on her birthday weren’t seen by just the NSA, there was also a large back and forth between the NSA, the FBI and the CIA. The documents reportedly call the collection of your data a “team sport.”